Poverty

With a population of 14 million (as per Census 2006 data), of whom 43.9 % lives below the poverty line, and almost half is under 15, Burkina Faso is classified as both a least developed country and a low-income, food-deficit country. As the United Nations frontline agency in the fight against hunger, the World Food Programme (WFP) is continually responding to emergencies.

Based on the hypothesis that the GEC negatively affected livelihoods, increased poverty conditions and subsequently increased to natural disasters; an ontology was developed to link these parameters and to model how the GEC could impact them.